Director: Microsoft fueling HD wars

Divide and rule, i always wondered why MS is supporting HD-DVD so aggressively.

probably will need vista to view them as well.

So a movie director knows how much about this? This is just like any other guess posted on a forum, except the guy posting is someone whose name we have heard before.

and rid the world of that plague once and for all!

The MS empire is built entirely on bullying and theft. None of their successes are caused by innovation or quality. And I suppose that throughout history, success in any field has been gained by bullying and theft. Apple is an exception: their success has come through innovation (being first) and/or quality (being better)

Oh, this is special! Are you telling me there is a corporate entity that has backed a specific format and wants stuff issued in that format? OMG, the next thing you'll tell me that Sony wants its movies only in Blu-Ray because that's the device they've backed and so that they'll be playable in the PS3. Oh, wait, that probably is the case!

There is a reason they call them the 'format wars'. (Oh, and it's no different then the DVD-R vs DVD+R or VHS vs Betamax wars). If anything, you'll notice Apple doing the "wait on the sideline until the dust settles" move. No sense making another mistake and going with the wrong sister to the prom. They already did that with PCI-X, ADB, NuBus, and DVD-R (I think they started with -R, might have been +R, whichever they picked turned out to be the least favorite of the two).

BTW, what does the directory prefer? Blu-Ray. So would he be upset or yelling if the movie was only available in that format?

And is this really anything but another full-of-himself director pissed off because the producers, and not he, is calling the shots?

And he also says: "What you don't understand is corporate politics," he says in the response. "Microsoft [officials] want both formats to fail so they can be heroes and make the world move to digital downloads."

If they both are being offered, how are they 'failing'? And he's really giving MS a lot of credit. Sure, they once were really good at spinning markets and being able to grab a market, but that was a LONG time ago. If they were that good, the Zune would be the big media player and the iPod the just a distant memory.

Oh, and lest we forget, the MPAA is really good at screwing people over to suck customers dry of cash (and pocketing most of it). Do you really think they're going to just go "Oh, MS, you saved us! Here, take over this entire market!" You see how they react to Jobs and Apple.

Supposing MS actually manages to buy their model into existence, we all know they're going to bundle a delivery system with their OS. However, as it stands now, Vista isn't selling nearly enough copies to make a dent. Do you think they'd go so far as to put it in with XP, since people actually use it?

Then again, as soon as someone makes a HD decoder, you know these format-war files are going to show up on P2P networks, making the issue null. The only thing really stopping dissemination in this vehicle are ppl's connection speed.

Time will tell whether this is BS, or an actual MS scheme gone awry once again.

Testudo! The question up to now was why were Microsoft supporting one side where, as an example, Apple supported neither? What interest does a software company have in a physical data format at all? The fact that HD-DVD "ISN'T" Sony, the fact that Blu-Ray uses Sun's Java for interactivity and navigation? I was already aware of the studio payoffs but the suggestion that M$ wants both sides to fail is a new and interesting (if not totally credible) perspective. Also, there's already an installed user base of over 5,000,000 blu-ray players, they're called PS3's against something like 750,000 HD-DVD players, no wonder Bay is pissed. Microsoft may have lost the capacity (and ability) to dominate markets but they retain the deepest pockets with which to screw up and artificially distort them. Think of the kid who, when not allowed to play, insists on spoiling the game.

Think of the kid who, WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH to play, insists...

McD